Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting ...

The normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution) is arguably the most important distribution in Statistics. It is often used to represent continuous random variables occurring in ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “It’s these VaR numbers that are really setting this thing off,” goes a line from the film Margin Call, the ...

Review challenges in the use of normality testing situations and recommendations on how to assess data distributions in the pharmaceutical development manufacturing environment Statisticians ...

Estimates of parameters of a singly truncated bivariate normal distribution have been directly obtained using eight (or nine) moments. Asymptotic variances and covariances of these estimates are given ...